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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14
THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS.
cHARACTEI

CHARACTER.
Character is perfectly educated will.-
Nopdlis.
The great hope of society il individual
character.-W. Il. Claiming.
The way to gain good characters is to
endeavor to be what you appear.--So-
crates.
All men are alike In their lower natures;
il is in their higher characters that they
diifer.-BOree.
As daylight can be seen through small
holes, so do little things show persons
character. Butler.
He that has character need have no fears
for his condition; character will draw after
it condiiion.-H w. Beecher.
The noblest contribution which any nan
can make for the benefit Of posterity is
that of good character.-J. Winthrop.
A good character is carefully TO be main-
tanned for the sake of others more than
ourselves. 1t is q coat of triple steel, CIV
ing security to the wearer, protection to
the oppressed, and inspiring the oppressor
with awe.-COitOn.
Character is like stock in trade, the more
OF it n man possesses the greater his facili-
ties for making additions to it. Character
is power-is influence. Ii makes friends,
creates funds, draws patronage and sup
port, and opens sure and easy way to
wealth, honor, and happiness.--Rer. T.
Haioeis.
CHARITY.
Let your charity begin at home, but do
not let it stop there.-H. Martyr.
A rich man without charity is rogue;
and perhaps it would be no difficult matter
to prove that he is also fool.-Fietding.
In every relation OF life we must bear
and forbear; We must not expect perfec-
ton, and each party should carry the cloak
of charity for the other.-Rer. N. Hug
gins.
/ have no respect for that self Boosting
charity which neglects all objects Of COM
the end of the earth in search of misery
for the purpose of talking about it.-G.
Mason,
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Cheap Farming lands South.

1t is a recognized fact that the cheapest
farming lands in America to- day are in the
South, and men of much or moderate
means, looking for real estate investments,
or permanent homes, should not fail to
Northern people are now settling, viz:
Jackson, Tennessee; Aberdeen and Jack
son, Mississippi; Hammond, Crowley,
Jennings, Welsh and Lake Charles, Lou
isiana. Round Trip Tourist tickets. linn
tied to June LIST, 1888, with stop over priv
ileges south Of Cairo, Illinois, are on sale
to New Orleans, Jennings and Lake
Charles. For rates apply to nearest ticket
illinois Central Railroad from Chicago OF
ST. Louis. For pamphlet entitled South
ern Home Seekers Guide" and circulars
concerning the above named points, adj
dress the undersigned, at Manchester, Iowa.
j. f. MERRY, Gen. West. Pass. Agt.
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Concerning lightning Rods.

Lightning rods, as they are placed
upon houses at present, are useless
expense and a more useless appendage
to the buildings upon which they are
placed. l have trave ed miles to in
spect buildings struck by lightning,
and by far the largest number were
protected, or said to be, by lightning
rods. True, the rods convey portion
OF the ell ctrical fluid to the earth, but
u thoroughly wetted house will convey
it to the earth much better than ordi-
nary lightning rods, whereas a dry,
wooden building. being poor conduct
or, becoming itself thoroughly electri-
fed, repels the stroke.
Out of thirty buildings examined
that had been struck by lightning,
eighteen had lightning rods, and twelve
were not protected. In five of the I'M
protected buildings the electricity was
concentrated by the lead sink spout,
where it passed into the house and
down the lead pipe of the pump in
to the well, where it disappeared
without doing much damage. In one
house the lightning was attracted by a
horshoe nailed to the corner of the
house and used for fastening the
clothes-line. 1t passed down the cor
ner to the earth without doing any es-
pecill damage. In three houses the
lightning was drawn from the wet
building by the sheet lead joining the
l. to the main house. The lightning
in three instances passed along the
caves spout, where it made use of the
water in the spout as conductor to
l. h.
lightning was concentrated in the in
terror of the house by hand-saw hang
ing on hoo1 in the ceiling of the
room. The owner of the house was a
carpenter, and when he came in from
= work he hung his saw up on this hook,
and sat down to supper. The Lightning
passed from the saw blade to his head,
killing him instantly. In several other
instances the lightning struck the chin
ney, where it was attracted into the
rooms by the stove pipe, or perhaps
some metallic ornament upon the man
telpiece. Deaths caused by lightning
in houses are, nine times out of ten, of
people standing in the doors or shut
ting down windows, they being much
better conductors than the building it
self.
Now let us consider the lightning
rod. Great masses of iron or copper
conduct lightning off without danger
to the building which contains them, no
matter whether they are inside or out
side. Who ever heard of q factory or
, machine-shop being injured to any ex-
ktent by lightning? Cne may pass a
copper rod or bar through barrel of
gunpowder, and, if the bar is three
inches in diameter, it is doubtful if q
lightning-bolt passing through the bar
would discharge the powder. Often L
have received sharp shocks from the
machinery in a mill during thunder
storm, but 1 never heard of a mill or
any of the machinery or operatives be-
ing injured from that cause.
Lightning is generated at various al
titudes from one-quarter of mile to
four miles in height. When generated
at great attitudes it is usually dissem-
mated among the negative vapOr OF the
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SPEAKING of "supertiuous women,
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore very apuy says;
eyes, there are plenty of them, and of SUI
perfluous men also. But you will not al
ways find them among the unmarried.
They are superduous women, who give
themselves to idle pleasure and morbid
fancy, and despise the activities of the age
in which they were born; who are so lack
ing in principle that they will accept any
man in marriage-an octogenarian, an i'm
beetle or debauchee-if his establishment
be satisfactory. Who, anchored in the
haven of a husbands love, and surrounded
by the evidences of his practical thought
fuluess, become stepped in selfshness, and
make their whole life hot pursuit of folly
and fashion. interested only in the within
of the hour"
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He Has Them on His List.

"There is no more disagreeable per-
son on EARTH" says q quiet gentleman,
"than the strong man who, every time
lie shakes hands with you, squeezes
your fingers to a pulp, or every time he
meets you on the street catches the ten
derest spot on your arm and pinches it
until you vince. The man who slaps
you on the leg when he comes to sit
down with you ought to be treated to
the same dose, and l think there ought
to be framed general statute to pro-
vide for the punishment of the big men
who seize every opportunity to make
themselves intolerable to men with less
muscle than they have got. "-Nea0
York Tribune.
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STORIES OF WESTERN LIFE.
How = Cowboy Justice Of the Peace All
ministcred the Law.

How . Cowboy Justice of the Peace Adj
ministcred the Law.
His experience of Western life is as
racy as a volume of Bret Harte. Take
the following, for instance: At prairie
town not far from this ranch, as dis
tances go in the West, there is State
court of first instance, presided over by
one Roy Bean, justice of the peace, who
is also the owner of the principal gro
Gerry. Some cowboys had been drink
ing at the grocery one night, with the
result that one of them remained on
the floor, but with sense enough left to
lie on the side where he kept his dol
lars. the morning it appeared that
he had been rolled"-Anglice, turned
over and his pocket had been picked
whereupon court was called to try q
man on whom suspicion rested. Roy
Bean sat on barrel, swore In a jury,
and addressed the prisoner thus: Now,
you give that man his money back. y
NE culprit, who had sent for the law
yer OF the place to defend him, hest
tated for moment and then pulled out
the money You treat this crowd"
were Koy's next words; and while
links round" were handed to tho de-
lighted cowboys at the prisoners ex-
pense Roy pulled out his watch aud
went on: "loI've got just five minutes
to clear out of this town, and If ever
you come in again we'll hang you.
The culprit made off just as his lawyer
came up, who demonstrated with Roy,
explaining that the proper course would
have been to have heard the charge,
h.
to the county town for trial. And go
off sixty miles, and hang round with
the boys witnesses for you to pull the
skunk through and touch the dollars !"
said Roy, scornfully; whereupon the
lawyer disappeared in pursuit of his
client and unpaid fee.
1t occurs to one to ask how much of
the litigation of England might be
saved if judges of first instance might
open with Roys formula-"Now, you
ygive that man his money back" l am
: bound to add that his practice is not
without its seamy side. When the
railway was making, two men came i'll
from one of the gangs for warrant.
A brutal murder had been committed.
Roy told his clerk (the boy in the gro
Gerry, he being no penman HIMSELF to
make out the paper, asking-"Wot's
the corpse's name?" al Hung" was
the reply. Hold on!" shouted Roy
60 his clerk; and then to the pursuers
Ef You ken find anything in them
boo s." pointing to the two or three
supplied by the Stat, about KILN
a Chinaman, it Ken CO." and the pur-
suers had to travel on to the next fount
of Justice.
Please find room for one more and |
will promise to cut my next shorter.
Ny "loaf- heard it himself as
he was leaving Texas, and laughed at
it nearly all the way up. A group of
cowboys at the station were discussing
the problem of how long the world would
last if this drought went on, the pre-.
vailing sentiment being that they
would rather it worruted through
somehow. A cowboy, down on his
luck, here struck in: wall, if the
angel stood right thar, pointing across
the room, "rea3y to sound, and looked
across at me, I'd Just say, 'Gabe toot
your old horn p"-London Spectator.
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SOCialiStic Principles.

Eyes, sir; I've reformed my political
views very radically" remarked a
stovebox statesman to his coterie OF
hearers.
"In what way?"
"I'm Socialist. 1 want everything
to be divided up even. That's going
to be the future order of things"
Eyes; and what are you going to dc
when you get your share, and some
fellow comes along with less than you
have-divide up with him?'
era no, / think I'll reform my
views again. "-Merchd1t TrdUeler.
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A Popular ThorOuchfare.

The Wisconsin Central Line, although a
comparatively new factor in the railroad sys-
TENS of the Northwest, has acquired an envi-
able popularity. Through careful attention
to details, It's service is as near perfection as
might be looked for. The train attendants
seem to regard their trusts as individual
property and as a result the public is served
par-excelence. The road now runs solid
through fast trains between Chicago, Milwau-
kee, St Paul and Minneapolis with Pulman's
best and unequaled dining cars; it also runs
through, solp sleepcrs between Chicago, Ash
land, Duluth and the famous mining regions
of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14
The First Smoke.

Anxious Mother How pale you are,
my darling. Surely you are not we'll.
" hat have you been eating?
Young Hope ful-Nothing, mother. ]
am all right
Practical Papa-Eatingl Nonsense
Ask him what he has been smoking.
on can't fool me on the look of boy
after he has been smoking.
Anxious Mother-Have you been
smoking, dear?
Young Hopeful No, mum.
Practical father thrusts his hand in.
to jacket pocket of young hopeful, and
brings forth bundle of cigarettes,
from which several have been abstract
ed. Young hopeful hangs his head,
but looks up when asked where the
money came from to purchase the Gig.
arettes, and answers the question thus
81 rented out my bicycle for half an
hour for ten cents"
Tableau Threatening look from
papa, and young hopeful ordered to
bed supperless. -Phiiadetphia BuLie-
tin
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Same a. Usual.

He sat at the end of the car and blew
five loud and successive blasts on his
nose A man in the center of the car
sprang up, located the man, and in
CURED:
WAS that a danger-signal or only
your usual way of blowing your brains
out?"
IF you will get off the car I'll whip
you in two minutes" said the man with
the nose, as he turned very red.
THAT settles it, and l sit down. No
danger, ladies-all keep your seats. 1t
was one of his usual blows. "-DetrOit
Free Press.
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In General Debility, Emaciation,

Consumption, and wasting i'll children, SCOTS
Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with HypO-
phosphitss is a most valuable food and medi-
cine. 1t creates an appetite for food, strength
ems the nervous system, and builds up the
body. Please read: II tried Scotts Emulsion
on young man whom physicians at times
gave up hope. Sincs he began using tho
Emulsion his cough has ceased, gained flesh
and strength, and from all appearances ms
SULLIVAN, Hospital Steward, Morganza, Pa
How TO be happy, though married-try
and get on without the hired girl.-!Syra-
cuse Herald.
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"What Drug Will Scour These I'm.
gllsh Hence y,

Duncan, asked this question in his despair.
Thousands Of victims OF disease are daily
asking "What will scour the impurities from
my blood and bring mo healthy" DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will do it. When
the purple life-tide is sluggish, causing drow-
siness, headache, and loss Of appetite, use
this wonderful vitalzer. ,,nich never fails Ii
forces the liver .:..o perfect action, drives out
superfluous bile, brings the glow OF health TO
the cheek, and the natural sparkle to the eye.
All druggists
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A Pleasure Shared by Women Only.

Malherbe, the gifted French author, de-
clared that OF all things that man possesses,
women alone take pleasure In being possessed
THIS seems generally true of the sweetor sex
Like the ivy plant, she longs for an object to
cling To and love--to look to for protection
This being her prerogatve, ought she not to
be told that DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is the physical salvation of her sex? 1t ban
ishes those distressing maladies that make hor
life burden, curing all painful irregularities,
uterine disorders, Inflammation and u cera-
ton, proapsus aud kindred weaknesses. AS
n nervine, IL cures nervous exhaustion, PROS
tration, debility, relieves mental anxiety and
hypochondria, and promotes refreshing sleep,
MANY man has gSs into peck Of trou-
BILE by hiding his light Sider q bushel.-
BO0tOa Gdsetle.
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Rare Enthusiasm.

Tragedian-"When played Othello
in Dakota last season the audience rose
as one man and called me before the
curtain after the first act.
Friend ery fattering, and after
the second"
Tragedian-"I only played one act.
Friend-"How was that?"
Tragedian-"When they got me be-
fore the curtain they kept me there. -
It'd Bits.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14

A MEMORIAL to Helen Hunt Jackson
and her labors in behalf of the Indians
will be the Ramona Indian Girls School,
now in process OF building at Santa Fe,
N. M. The building will cost $4,000, and
will accommodate 100 pupils. Students
will be retained from two to five years. A
New York architect contributed the de-
sign, which is patterned to some extent on
the old cliff dwellings of New Mexico and
AiizOna
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CO.Operatiye Dreams.

A little girl had her first dream and
was expatiating upon the new-found
experience and telling it out, when her
mother said: Jennie, tell mamma
your dream?"
"Oh, pshaw, mamma, you were lying
right by me and you ought to know. |"
LOUISVILLE Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14

the screw was in the screw-jack for
raising heavy weights. The various
notifications and applications of this
power belong to the era of mechanical
discovery in the present contury.-TO-
IedO Bl1dc
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Itching Piles.

Symptoms-MCist ure; intense itching and
stnging; most at night; worse by scratching.
If allowed to continue tumors form, which
often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore
Swayne's Ointment stops the itching and
bleeding heals Iteration, and in many cases
removes the tumors II is equally efficacious
in curing all Skin Diseases Dr. Swayne a.
Son, Proprietors. Philadelphia Swayne's
Ointment can be obtained of druggists, or by
mail
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14

COME, read, read, sirrah, and refuse
your appetite; feast your mind, and
mortify your flesh; read, and take your
nour.shment in at your eyes; shut up
your mouth, and chew the cud of un-
derstanding.
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Catarrh Cured.

clergyman, after years Of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and
saved him from death. Any sufferer from this
stamped envelope to Prof. j. A. Lawrence. ZIG
East Ninth street, New York, will receive the
recipe free Of charge
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14

THE way to avoid the imputation of
impudence is not to be ashamed of
what we do, but never to do what we
oupht TO be ashamed of.
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A MAN, so to speak, who is not able
to bow to his own conscience every
morning, is hardly in condition re-
specially to salute the world Mt any
other time of the day.-Douglas Jer-
3.Ol1
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Consumption Surely Cured.

To tho Editor Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently cured.
shall DO glad TO send two bottles OF my remedy
FREE to any OF your readers who have consump-
tion il they will send me their Express and
=. o. address. Respectfully,
7. A. SLOCUM M. c.. Isl Pearl St, NJ Y.
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For Coughs mssd Throat Disor-

OcrS use BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs. :
Have never changed my mind respecting
them, except l think better of that which
began thinking we'll of."-Rev Henry Ward
Beecher Sold only in boxes
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The first stops of love are found in the
admiring stares of tue young couple.
ton Bulletin.
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DYSPEPSIA.

DIR. RAILWAYS PILLS are cure for this
complaint. They storeFstrength to the s'omach
and enable il 20 perform its functions. Tie symp-
toms Of Dyspepsia disappear. and with them the
liability OF the system to contract disease. Ia Ike tho
medicine according to directions, and observe wias
we say in False and True" respecting diet. few
extracts from the many letters we constantly
ccivng:
I'm my practice and family in preference TO ali othey
Pills"
Mrs. Caroline Monteith, Deer Creek, Ind. Il be-
liove my life has been saved by medicine. Have
long been suffering with Dyspepsia and Liver Conn
plant"
ii. A. Carr, p. M Escamba, Ala: Best Pills he has
used"
f. Hummel, Boonville, NO.: Cured hin when all
others tailed
Alice r. Ohaver, Mt. Storm, w Va: Il positively
say that Railways are the best Pills / ever had for
Dyspepsia"
BS Send letter stamp to DIR. RADWAY h CO.
No. 30 Warren ST.. New York. for False and True"
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WE confess to the weakness of liking to
hear nice things sail Of us.-Richmond
(hy.) ClimdI.
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WHEN everything else fails, DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures.
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You will get more comfort for 25c. in Lyon 8
Heel Shffoners than in any other article you buy
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Ii afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1T 25c.
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No TINE is too short for the wicked
to injure their neighbors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-23
Scraps of Sport.

The Cincinnati Reds will wear uniforms
next season similar to those in which they
won the first American association pennant
in 1882. Two of the outfielders will wear
shirts and caps of solid eolors, and all will
don white pants and red stockings. Little
Mics" colOrs will be blue, Tebeau's orange
white, Corkhill's black and white, Reilly's
blue and black. McPhee's blue and white,
Carpenters red and white. Fennelly's a deli
cate wine tint, Mullanes red and black. and
Baldwin-s orange and black. Those for the
other players have not been decided upon,
but they viii be sorted from those eolors.
All will be quilted.
Frank Selee is very enthusiastic over his
Omaha team for 1888 He will have Lovett
Burdiek and Cassian as pitchers, Wilson and
Coopey as catchers, O'COnnelI on first, Shan
non or Miller on second, Walsh at short, Do
ran on third and Burns, Annis and Campana
in the field. Selee says there will be a strong
prohibition plank in the Omaha platform
next year.
Mr.. McKeown. of Winnipeg. owns a fight
ing dog that weighs seventy pounds that has
been matched against a ST. Paul dog. The
time for the fight is set for six weeks from
last night The location is to be fixed be-
tween St Paul and Chicago.
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LASSOED THE BALLET.
A Gang of Kansas Cowboys Take
Possession of a Variety Show. =

1.-THE cowboy is seldom quarrelsome,"
in the opinion of writer in the Kansas
City Star, but is apt to do great many
things for fun that look outrageous to
the average peaceable citizen. | re-
member one time, just after the Arkan-
sas roundup, that party of the boys,
myself included, were quartered at
Dodge City. We all got rooms at the
hotel, and determined to go to bed early
that night and have real civilized
sleep. 1t was about O'Clock in the aft
ernOon, and we spent the time until
nightfall in specializing as to sensati oas
we would experience in sleeping in a
bed. Jim Lane told us about his moth
er's big, soft feather beds. and before
he had finished every one of us was
bed-hungry. We could fairly hear the
rain drops pattering on the roof of the
old white farm house up in New Eng
land, and the rustic of the apple boughS
against the window panes. At last
night dropped down. and Charlie Hooper
rose to bis feet. yawned, stretched him
self and said with an air of assumed in
difference: Good night, boys; I'm tired
and I'm going to bed
1.-The remainder of the company fol-
lowed suit, and soon the whole outfit
had been shown their rooms, which
were all in row. In some instances
the boys were put two in room. The
first thing that heard was the voice of
Jim Lane, who was expostulatiilg with